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"My children may bicker, and I may—almost certainly will—complain. But the bickering and the griping are chaff, and what’s left when the winds of time carry them away are the golden kernels I want to savor..."
--Melissa Wiley

September 23, 2008

Too Much Cake!

(The idea came from this post by Jessica at Catholic Cuisine; the cookie recipe was from Jamie's post there as well. I am not talented (or patient) enough to make those pretty cookies from a template, so we just cut out stars and layered them in threes before baking, then stuck them to the sides of the cake with frosting. (ETA: We also glazed them with 10x sugar moistened with cream and a drop or two of yellow food coloring). I think it took about 1 dozen 2" (wide) cookie stacks. Junie & Taz helped make the cookies, and scarfed lots of candy. Step 2 helped me keep my sanity.)

(The idea for this one came from Family Fun, which also has some other great ideas for a Campfire birthday. I used a single large layer pan -- 12x2" -- to bake the whole cake. Then I used quartered graham crackers and a slice of f the bottom of a large marshmallow for the head (pressed sticky side down), and tinted the frosting to "match" each girl's hair. The cake is frosted with canned (!) white frosting, tinted green (we used about 1 1/2 cans , tinted in various colors, to frost everything); the outside edge is trimmed in chocolate jimmies. The campfire is surrounded with brown M&Ms and lined with jimmies; the logs are made from a large marshmallow cut in half lengthwise, and then cut lengthwise again, then shaken in a bag of cocoa powder. I only used half the marshmallow. Then "fire" was made with yellow and orange gel decorator icing. Junie helped quite a bit with this one, and it was a fun project to do together!)

and one for Junie B.'s actual birthday, last night.

(This one was "Store-boughten." My favorite recipe! Who wouldn't love a kid who wants a grocery store cake and 33-cent boxed mac & cheese for her birthday dinner?!) :)

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